Christian Dion

Helping B2B companies ditch yesterday's marketing playbook for sustainable growth. I work with forward-thinking teams to build modern demand engines that actually drive pipeline and revenue.
I help companies that need:
- Full-funnel strategies across Brand, Demand, and Expand—not just short-term tactics
- Marketing that builds trust instead of burning it on quick wins
- Campaigns that recognize today's chaotic, multi-threaded buyer journey
- Paid media that connects with real buyers, not just vanity metrics
- Systems that create compounding momentum, not siloed activities

**Available for short projects or fractional leadership where I can help transform how you think about demand generation.

Growth Consultant

Pavilion

Member

Motorola Solutions

Led the North American demand gen/paid media team, managing always-on campaigns (and ABM paid media) across public safety and commercial sectors to drive demand and pipeline growth.

Key Achievements:
• Increased Pipeline: Achieved year-over-year pipeline growth by expanding paid media strategy to include new channels and advanced campaign framework.
• Promoted Innovation: Fostered a culture of testing and innovation, introducing DOOH, programmatic display ads, and enhanced email approaches to improve reach, engagement and ultimately, conversions.
• Refined Attribution: Worked with marketing intelligence to evolve success metrics beyond last-touch attribution, capturing a more complete view of campaign impact.

Head of Digital Pipeline Growth

Promoted to lead the North American Digital Campaigns and Paid Media team (a total of 8 marketing professionals).

Head of Digital Campaigns Marketing and Media

Led the Web, SEO and Performance Marketing team on the Rave Mobile Safety business. 

Key Achievements:
• Grew overall MQL volume in 2023 by 138%, driving marketing sourced opportunities pipeline by 35% vs 2022. 
• Expanded demand generation with significant shift in paid social campaigns, a key component to the full funnel marketing strategy set in place.
• Improved SEO and content strategy, driving 2X high-intent demo requests.

Director, Digital Performance Marketing

Broadsign

Led marketing strategy for SaaS ad platform, implementing first ABM program and orchestrating demand generation initiatives. Established go-to-market (GTM) alignment across teams while expanding into new target areas.

Key Achievements:
• Designed end-to-end ABM strategy that increased average deal value 30% and reduced sales cycles by 25%, generating $4M+ pipeline within 12 months.
• Launched content experience platform driving 40% increase in engagement through digital out-of-home (DOOH) insights video series and certification program.
• Enhanced lead routing and qualification process, increasing sales qualified leads 15%.

Marketing Director, Programmatic Solutions

GardaWorld

Coordinated marketing strategy for $1B Canadian security services division with team of 4. Directed digital transformation and integrated programs across B2B and B2C channels. Planned field marketing and recruitment initiatives.

Key Achievements:
• Achieved 120% sales growth in security systems with digital-first strategy, leveraging marketing automation and targeted campaigns.
• Introduced campus recruitment program, boosting training enrolment 20% and role fill rates 15%.
• Developed field marketing content and event programs, posting double-digit pipeline growth in strategic verticals.

Director, Marketing & Communications

Connect&GO

Spearheaded GTM strategy and market penetration across North America and Europe with team of 6. Created vertical-specific positioning / messaging and campaigns while enabling sales through ABM programs.

Key Achievements:
• Executed data-driven ABM strategy and content programs, contributing to 28% year-over-year revenue growth.
• Orchestrated product positioning and GTM strategy for Ski&GO solution, securing partnerships with 2 major ski resorts in first season.
• Optimized marketing technology stack and customer relationship management (CRM), streamlining lead management and reporting.

Vice President Marketing

Sharethrough

Oversaw new customer acquisition and agency partnerships across demand side / supply side platform (DSP / SSP) businesses. Leveraged programmatic expertise to develop and optimize high-impact display campaigns for agency and brand clients. Secured and managed 6 high-growth client accounts within first 6 months, including 2 strategic finance industry wins.

Senior Account Director

Talkable Solutions

Business Development & Growth Consultant with Canadian startups and CPG brands.

Key Achievements:
• Generated $1.5M net new business growth for digital promotion technology startups through targeted sales strategy.
• Steered Canadian market entry for RENOVA luxury household paper brand, delivering $3M earned value with media, event, and influencer campaigns.
•  Negotiated strategic partnerships with Dairy Farmers of Canada and L'Oreal Professional on behalf of supply chain technology solution provider.

Founder

Whirlpool Corporation

New Business Development Manager - innovation

National Account Executive

PepsiCo

Senior Sales Manager

My career path? Let's just say it's been more jazz than classical.

Started in Fortune 500, mastering the most important skill (sales) at P&G and PepsiCo. Caught the digital wave at Yahoo!. Then turned entrepreneur, orchestrating marketing campaigns that turned heads (and delivered 5X ROI).

I blend enterprise wisdom with startup instincts. See opportunities in blind spots. Turn marketing systems into revenue engines.

At Motorola Solutions, transformed demand gen into a pipeline machine, leading an eight-person team that unlocked millions in enterprise deals.

At Broadsign, engineered ABM strategies that conquered markets across continents.

My superpower? Making B2B marketing feel human while delivering hard revenue. Creating systems that scale while keeping authenticity at the core.

In a world obsessed with AI, I still believe the best growth comes from understanding people first.

👉 Currently seeking my next adventure—ready to build something remarkable with a high-growth tech company that thinks differently.

Dee Acosta

Metadata

Giving marketers superpowers with automation and AI.

Ad AI, Sales, and GTM

Stack Moxie

The only solution built for marketers to test their martech stack before campaigns go live - and continuously. No more missed SLAs, lost leads, and bad tags. 

Check out our free PLG version on our website.

Sales and GTM Advisor

Aligned

Aligned is the best way to support your champions and accelerate deal cycles - period. Allowing individual reps to provide a repeatable, enterprise-grade experience to all opportunities.

Proud to support this team as they change the way sales are done.

Customer Advisory Board Member 

Modigie, Inc.

Notable achievements:
 - Largest deal company-wide Q4 2023
 - 300% of ramped quota
 - Implemented a modern sales motion
 - Ask me about the podcast I started

Company made organizational changes in the summer of 2024.

Senior Director of Sales and Strategic Growth

HockeyStack

Founding sales rep. In just half a year, I managed to more than double both our Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and customer count. I took our Average Contract Value (ACV) to new heights, way beyond just doubling it. 

I never lost a deal to a competitor nor have a single client opt-out. 

- Over $470,000 in new business in under seven months
- Doubled customer count 
- Raised ACV by 240%

Head of Revenue

metadata.io

#1 sales rep for new business bookings and rank in new hire class. 

Top performing rep company wide H2 2021 and H1 2022. 

Self-sourced half of new deals while working with a world-class marketing and GTM team. 

Sold several enterprise-grade deals in the six-figures, requiring consensus and strict procurement review. Along with deals with hot European companies.

Senior Sales Executive

Spiceworks Ziff Davis

Top-performing sales rep H1 2021. 

Top performing new business rep 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 (you know what happened in 2020) against a million dollar quota. 

Largest deal company-wide 2018. 

Spearheaded the sourcing of 95% of new deals, consistently driving growth and exceeding a million-dollar quota.

All while co-managing the SDR team and onboarding new hires. 

My client portfolio includes prestigious Fortune 1000 tech giants such as HPE, Fortinet, Snowflake, Digitas, Tableau Software, Salesforce, and Adobe, among other top-tier companies.

Spiceworks Ziff David acquired Aberdeen in 2020.

Sales Director

Top performing new business rep:
- 2015
- 2016
- 2018
- 2019
- Largest deal company-wide 2018

Consistently delivered on a million-dollar-plus quota while sourcing my own deals.

Senior Sales Executive and Corporate Evangelist

Reeher LLC

Notable results while at Reeher: fastest first sale from hire.

Regional Director of Sales - East

Spiceworks Ziff-Davis acquired Aberdeen in 2020. 

In my role as an Account Executive and a Team Lead I am constantly challenged with developing creative ways to support clients’ goals. I also continuously aid in building the strategy and agenda of several of Aberdeen's practices. 

Net new clients that I have brought on during my tenure include many of the top tier organizations in their respective space.

Achievements:
Top Performing Aberdeen Account Executive Company Wide October 2009
Top Performing Tech Team Account Executive December 2010 
Top Performing Tech Team Account Executive Q1 and Q2 2011
Top Performing Tech Team Account Executive December 2011
#1 Account Executive in Bookings Company Wide H1 2012
#1 Non-Global Account Executive in Bookings Total Year 2012
#3 Account Executive in Bookings Company Wide Total Year 2012
Consistently delivered on a million dollar quota

Senior Account Executive and Team Lead

Account Executive and Team Lead

Forrester Research

Create qualified sales leads for the Forrester Marketing and Strategy New Business team.  This entails finding companies that are a fit for Forrester's services, conveying the value of research,  and creating business.  Constantly in touch with executives from innovative $500 million plus companies.

Member of Forrester's top performing team in Q1 2009.

Sales Development Specialist

Pipeline Coach / Proven Growth Driver / Trusted B2B Advisor

Dee:  A track record of positive energy and helping marketers at startups and enterprises build new business.  

Incredibly proud girl dad. 👨

Dedicated follower of the Challenger Sale Methodology and pClub. 

Proponents of diversity across all criteria.

Cancer survivor circa 2022.

Admiral General

B2B marketing attribution you don’t have to make up. 

Dee Acosta 📱

Here’s a super simple way to find out if your marketing is actually doing anything.

Take your target account list. Doesn’t matter if it’s 50, 100, or 500 accounts.
 
For now, let’s say 100. Split them into two groups of 50.

Group A:
 Run paid ads to them. Nothing fancy - just consistent air cover.
 One week later, have sales start outbounding those same accounts.

Group B:
 No ads. No air cover.
 Sales just does their normal outbound thing.

Now wait until the end of the month and compare:
 - Outbound → Meeting rate
 - Meeting → SAO rate
 - Pipeline created

And if you want to be really honest with yourself, check the full sales cycle, too.

Every time I’ve seen this test run, the same thing happens:

The accounts that saw marketing convert higher.
 Outbound lands better.
 Meetings happen faster.
 Sales doesn’t have to drag people across the finish line.

No attribution model. No dashboards. No politics.
 
 Just reality.

If marketing is actually warming up your market, you’ll see it instantly.

And if it’s not… well, that’s useful to know too.

H/T Joe Meier or inspiring this idea. 🦈

Dee Acosta 🤖

GTM AI / Growth Driver / Trusted B2B Advisor / Vibe Promoter

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